Joseph Yarrow Photography

SNOW! II

January 7th, 2010

A few more snow pictures today.
Yesterday it was incredible, but today it was so beautiful.
The snow was like dust, or sugar.
I just love the way it sparkled.
I just remembered that a few weeks ago on my facebook account, I posted some rules for the weather, they are as follows;

1 ) Snow, you can fall, but only at night
2 ) Clouds, you can go now (5-10 cirrus clouds can stay, scattered across the sky)
3 ) Sky, stay blue.
4 ) In the morning, Sun comes out and shines without melting the snow
5 ) Repeat step 1>4
6 ) Snow, you can stay on the ground and trees for 2-3 days (note: Snow should fall before kids break up from school to give them an extended holiday)
7 ) Temperature, remain at a steady 0 degrees to avoid ice making things annoying.
8 ) Snow, after staying for 2-3 days, you may now leave.
9 ) Repeat if required.
10 ) Summer.

So far in Bristol, pretty good!
Let's just hope it doesn't make things tricky for people.
Enjoy these pictures.
I was shooting around Blaise Castle Estate again as its only round the corner for me.

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The ponds of course were totally frozen over.

Perhaps a little over sharpened, but I'm not looking for any awards here. This is just pure beauty don't you think?

I've realised today that I'm not really much of a landscape photographer which is fine by me as I've never claimed to be one.
I can appreciate a great scene when I see it, I just don't know how to capture it.
This is a wedding photography blog though, so just go easy on me, ok?

I don't know if this is sweet or creepy...?

So...yeh, this is a picture of me standing on a POND!!
This is the pond that we overlooked yesterday as seen on the 5th picture down here
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Thanks for reading people!
I'd love to do a photoshoot in this snow, so if you're interested in an engagement shoot or a couples shoot, then contact me before the snow goes!

Thanks.
Joseph

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SNOW!

January 6th, 2010

So I promised to blog more, and what better excuse to blog, than SNOW!
Remember last years post about snow?

Jessica had a snow day, as did most of the country I presume, so we had a nice breakfast and walked up to Blaise Castle Estate.
You'll probably remember Paul and Cassie's Wedding ceremony was held there in the Museum?
It's a beautiful building inside and I'd love to shoot there again.
Shooting at a museum is pretty amazing, but it's in walking distance, that just makes things perfect!

It snowed here in Bristol around christmas time, but my mum was in hospital having two operations and ending up in ICU, not the most fun we, or she's had, so we didn't get to enjoy the snow!
I'm just glad that she's out now, and that things are getting back to normal.

I'd imagine there are hundreds of bloggers who have posted snow pictures. So I'll just copy them!

First get out there and build a snow man, then come back and check out these pictures!

Here's Jessica for those who don't know what she looks like.
Pretty isn't she?

I seem to always take pictures of Beech leaves when I'm out.
I think they're beautiful leaves. Such a warm fiery orange and they seem to take forever to fall off the trees.

So this is the actual Castle. We can see it from our house! Which is pretty cool!

Such an incredible view.

Thanks for reading.
Joseph

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Scotland

January 5th, 2010

I'm not really one for new years resolutions, but I do have a few goals.
One of my goals for this year that I'll do my best to achieve is to blog more.
I'd say about 50% of my bookings I get are from word of mouth, the other 50% is from blogging.
People see that I've shot at a venue that they're getting married at, they can relate to the pictures and imagine themselves in the pictures, and they book me!

Now, blogging is fine when I've got plenty to blog about, but right now, things are still very slow.
I'm getting so many bookings coming in, but I can't post pictures of cheques or bank statements.
Bring on the summer! I really can't wait to shoot loads of weddings this year!

So to keep my goal, I need to find material to blog about.
So here goes...

In September Jessica, myself and some other friends travelled up to the Isle of Lewis for a holiday.

Here are some of the more scenic pictures from the trip.

We flew up to Glasgow, stayed overnight at a friends, then drove up to Ullapool.
Low cloud cover was the visual theme of the holiday and "Wow!!" seemed to be the word that came out of my mouth the most!
Incredible scenery!

Enjoy.

You see some houses and you wonder what inspired them to build there.
Then the answer becomes obvious. They built there because it's beautiful

This was the first beach that we went to. The sand was a mixture of white, with black texture running through it from the pete.
As the black petey water ran into the sea, the sea was also black. Incredible.
Also, this beach was huge, and there were 3 other people on there.

Yes, I did get wet for this shot!

I'll be honest, some of the scenery was a little eerie.
Mainland Scotland was far more beautiful, and had far more trees.
The Isle of Lewis was so windy that trees just couldn't survive. Instead there were rocks

This was the windiest day that I've ever experienced, even windier than this photoshoot
The locals said to us that we were crazy for being out in this weather!
Incredible weather, and literally breathtaking.

This was an amazing beach. Strange to have surf with mountains in the background.
I used to surf a little when I was younger but I'm not sure if this was normal...
The water was bitterly cold for me.
Thank goodness I had my boxers on!

I was a little short on friends, so I made a new one! Hi!

We visited the standing stones which are... well... stones that are standing.
It was an ancient burial ground.
I attempted a new photographic technique for this shot and was very happy with the shot.
Each of these stones was far taller than me

On the last night, we went for a little star gazing.
Last time I saw a sky like this was in Hawai'i.
We laid on the bonnet of the car and freezed our arse's off.
It was incredible!

We stayed in Ullapool which is on the mainland, this is where the ferry leaves from. This was our view from our youth hostel.
Beautiful.
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